An Unmarried Woman
(1978)
She laughs, she cries, she feels angry, she feels lonely, she feels guilty, she makes breakfast, she makes love, she makes do, she is strong, she is weak, she is brave, she is scared, she is... an unmarried woman.
Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Patricia Quinn
Director: Paul Mazursky
Writer: Paul Mazursky
Language: English
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Duration: 124
Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. The film shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right rather than as an extension of somebody else's personality, and finally going out with another man. Erica refuses to drop everything for Saul, an abstract expressionist painter, simply out of love for him because he expects her to. It is not so much loneliness that is her problem, and the problems that men, flitting around this newly "available" woman like moths round a flame, bring to her sense of independence.
Jill Clayburgh | Erica |
Alan Bates | Saul |
Michael Murphy | Martín |
Cliff Gorman | Charlie |
Patricia Quinn | Sue (as Pat Quinn) |
Kelly Bishop | Elaine |
Lisa Lucas | Patti |
Linda Miller | Jeannette |
Andrew Duncan | Bob |
Daniel Seltzer | Dr. Jacobs |
Matthew Arkin | Phil |
Penelope Russianoff | Tanya |
Novella Nelson | Jean |
Raymond J. Barry | Edward |
Ivan Karp | Herb Rowan |
Michel Murphy | |
Lisa Pelican | |
Jill Eikenberry | Claire |
Michael Tucker | Fred |
Chico Martínez | Cabbie (as Chico Martinez) |
Clint Chin | Chinese Waiter |
Ken Chapin | Man at Bar |
Tom Elios | Ice Vendor |
Karen Ford | Executive Secretary |
Alice J. Kane | Waitress |
Paul Mazursky | Hal |
Pamela Meunier | Hat-Check Girl |
Donna Perich | Sophie |
Vincent Schiavelli | Man at Party |
David Rasche | (uncredited) |
John Stravinsky | Bartender |
Paul Jenkins | Man at Party |
Marianne Muellerleile | Partygoer |
Ultra Violet | Lady Macbeth |
Alison Tucker | Alison (uncredited) |
Arthur J. Ornitz | Cinematographer |
Stuart H. Pappé | Film Editor |
Les Fresholtz | Sound Department |
Dennis Maitland | Sound Department |
Michael Minkler | Sound Department |
Arthur Piantadosi | Sound Department |
Sharron Miller | Sound Department |
Sam F. Shaw | Sound Department |
Bill Conti | Composer |
Pato Guzman | Production Designer |
Edward Stewart | Set Decorator |
Albert Wolsky | Custome Designer |
William A. Farley | Hairdresser |
Mike Maggi | make up |
Terence A. Donnelly | Assistant Director |
Thomas John Kane | second assistant director |
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.1
IMDb: 0078444